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Your article on the effect of pollution on the sex life of birds (This Week, 7 November, p 12) ends with a comment from one of Britain's foremost authorities on birds. His name is given as Andy Gosling.

Clearly, steam has run out of the nominative determinism campaign and New Scientist is reduced to inventing cases. Andy is not a Gosling, merely a Gosler.

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